As I lately did almost no CSS/HTML jobs, I’ve missed the Sass3 release that implemented the SCSS extension (Sassy CSS). That’s a CSS extension without any syntax “distortion”, meaning that any valid CSS document is a valid SCSS document too. In this article, I’ll compare that release with some existing preprocessors, such as Sass and Less. Please note that the Sass syntax has been updated recently.

Today I’d like to share with you an extremely simple cross-browser implementation of the CSS property “box-shadow”. The method is so simple and obvious that I was greatly surprised not to find a similar solution anywhere on the Web (though I’m absolutely positive that I’m not the first one to discover it).

This is cool collection of most wanted, usefull tutorials and articles by CSS3. In this article you find out how make cool CSS3 Gradient Buttons, Sliding or bouncing Navigation without JavaScript, Slide effect menu with the Apple-Style and much more. Hope you like it. Thanks

In brief: How to make the new HTML 5 tags work with Internet Explorer.

Web developers cry happily looking at HTML 5, which has finally arrived. Though most of its features, such as WebGL, multiple streams, and web sockets, are not yet supported by some browsers, we can already use its new, handy tags.

Some high-end Philips TV sets have a cool feature, Ambilight. Basically, it is LED lighting that changes its color dynamically, depending on the television picture’s color. It is such a pleasure to watch movies on an Ambilight-enabled TV!

There are some implementations of such lighting in Adobe Flash. Why can’t we, web masters, do the same thing using scripts? It was another opportunity for me to check out what state-of-the-art web browsers can do, so I’ve made the following thing:

I’ve decided to use a trendy CSS property, content, for my web project, to make webpages more “lightweight” and to improve the flexibility of tuning their appearance. As the project was only intended for web developers, I didn’t need to bother about supporting outdated browsers (IE 6 and 7). Alas, I was greatly disillusioned in that CSS property: though everything was displayed correctly, the end user’s experience was far from perfect.

Hi everybody! In this article, I’ll tell you about one HTML5 video player. Probably you know that state-of-the-art web browsers already support HTML 5, which lets you embed video into a web document in such a way that a web browser doesn’t need any plugins to play it.

I’ve read quite a few articles on HTML 5, Theora, and video tags, but most of them discussed theoretical rather than practical issues. On my site MJV-ART.ORG, I recently added an anime section, JV-Video, which is a small video hosting (similar to YouTube) based on HTML5/Theora. In this article, I’m going to tell you about the real problems that I encountered.

There are many methods of making columnar layout. More than one web developer’s nose was blooded (fortunately, only virtually) in the holy wars over the superiority of one or the other technique. It should seem that everything is as clear as possible by now, but plenty of difficulties still arise here and there. I’d like to make my contribution to the common good, so I’ve spent some time on experiments that allowed me to create one more method, which has the following advantages and disadvantages:

In this article I will share with you a technique for laying out stretchy websites (actually, I have found out that I cannot make non-stretchy ones), which I’ve been using for the last 2-3 years. This technique, which can be used for creating sophisticated modular grids, is easy to use but somewhat difficult to understand, and it does have some drawbacks. Basically, this article might be useful for web designers too, as website layout should be correctly designed before actual coding is done.

For richer user interfaces it is often desirable to include some animation to make an effect smoother or more appealing, or effects such as rotating elements and text. Traditionally in HTML pages the primary means to add animations was to use JavaScript to adjust the desired CSS property value over a given period of time. This works but can be slower as the JavaScript code is not hardware or software accelerated. What’s more, using JavaScript for animations creates more code to maintain. It has not been possible to apply effects such as text at an angle without resorting to using images or SVG.

Once I needed to make tabs on the webpage. As it’s a rather routine problem, I didn’t want to reinvent the wheel, so I just googled a little bit to see how people solve it. All the solutions I found looked rather run of the mill, something like that:

I asked my readers to think out a technique for laying out blocks with rounded-off corners and shadows. Take a look at the solutions I received, and you will see that most of them are very much alike: four elements in the corners and a somewhat odd-looking result, though there are some differences in block placement. Let’s take a detailed look at the way those techniques work and also find out why this article isn’t simply titled “Creating rounded-off blocks with shadows.”

Nowadays there are a lot of pieces of news about CSS-sprites. However, all resources just crunch the same idea about saving a set of small pictures in the one to increase total page loading speed. This research in two parts will gather all my knowledge about sprites using features in the web.

I want to share with you my approach to markup of double-columned templates where both columns must have the same height. It seems to be well-known and frequently discussed subject and every web-design resource provide to you at least a few ways to do it. But I must point your attention to one moment that described templates are like “bricks”, i.e. templates with fixed width and maximum one expanding column. I will show how to make two (or more) expanding columns and it will be not emulation like bold colorful border, but real full-scale column for which you can setup your background picture for example.

What is jsProgressBarHandler?
jsProgressBarHandler is a Javascript based Percentage Bar / Progress Bar, inspired upon JS-code by WebAppers and CSS-code by Bare Naked App. Next to a structural rewrite of the WebAppers code, this javascript progress bar can easily be extended and tweaked just by setting a few parameters.